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' J. NEWHOUSE.

SPRING BED.

Patented June 23, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES NEWHOUSE, OF JERSEY CITY, NEV JERSEY.

SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,493, dated June 23,1885.

(No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES NEwHoUsE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Jersey City, inthe county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSpring-Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved springbed; and it consists inmounting the springs upon parallel slats and in connecting these slatsby means of pivoted links, as hereinafter more fully set forth, so thatthey will at all times be parallel and the springs thereon equallydistributed over the upper surface of the bed, said links being sopivoted as to permit the bed to be widened or narrowed at pleasure,allowing it to be made very narrow and compact for handling and shippingwithout bending its parts or entangling the springs.

My invention furthermore consists in an improved link for connecting thesprings the one to the other, said links adapted to present a smootheven surface to the bedclothes placed thereon and to prevent undue wearthereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top View of my improvedspring-bed. Fig. 2 is a diagram view showing method of operating thesame. Fig. 3 is an end view of bed as shown in Fig.' l. Fig. 4. is adetached view of two of the springs, showing the link-connection orbrace therefor.

My improved device is constructed as follows: A A A are a series ofslats, preferably either five or seven in number and made of sheetmetal, and upon these slats are mounted a series of conical springs, B,so spaced upon the several slats as that they will stand in diagonalrows when the bed-is opened, as shown in Fig. l. Each two adjacent slatsare joined together at two or more points of their length by pivotedlinks C, which are themselves divided into two parts, c c, pivotedtogether, as The pivotal points C ofthe connections at C.

nections are operated and made to move in unison.

A longitudinal movement of the rod D between their respective pairs ofslats A will cause the links C to operate and draw the slats together,as shown in Fig. 2, or the reverse.

The springs B, mounted upon the slats, are connected in diagonal rows bymeans of link plates E E, secured to the upper coil of the springs andadapted to present a broad flat surface to the bed-clothes placed uponthe springs, and there are two such links between each pair of springscoupled by a short link, e, which will allow cach pair oflink-plates Eto fold together beneath the level of the springs when the slats areclosed together, as shown in Fig. 2.

The springs upon the two outer slats of the bed'are braced and kept inline by means of a metallic strip, F, secured to the upper surface ofthe springs, and their bracing-strips are re-enforced, each by two ormore diagonal braces, G, secured by a pivotal connection to the secondslat from each side of the bed, and having a lateral slot near theirouter end to engage a pin or lug on the lower side of the strip F.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In an adjustablespring-bed, the combina tion of the slats A, conical springs B,pivotlinks C, rigid rods D, link-plates E, short links e, metallicstrips F, and diagonal braces G.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 26th day of January, A. D. 1885.

JAMES NEYVHOUSE.

Vitnesses:

FRANCIS C. BOWEN, Giras. W. HURDLE;

